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Nexus X HumectressBy David Gilbert Vice How one 18-year-old’s decision to turn his father in to the FBI tore his family apart. On January 5 last year, Guy Reffitt, a member of the Texas Three Percenters militia, packed his AR-15 rifle and a Smith & Wesson pistol into his wife’s […]
Krystal and Saagar weigh in on the Patton Oswalt saga that saw the comedian post a lengthy apology for posting a picture with longtime friend Dave Chappelle after online backlash
The Center for a Stateless Society political compass test is one of the best there is. These are my results. I’m fairly consistently anarchist, although as with all of these tests the answers I would give to some of the questions are a bit relative to context.
So says my political compass test. Take the quiz here.
–Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw accurately calls out Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for attention-seeking around her Twitter ban, and Greene quickly turns on Crewnshaw
I would generally agree with this author’s argument, following Aristotle, that diamond-shaped societies are better than pyramid-shaped societies, though I disagree with his analysis of how to get there (“Viva Roosevelt!”). Social democracy is like treating cancer with aspirin. By David Brin One aspect of our re-ignited American […]
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
Katie Halper reviews the worst media screw-ups of 2021, and predicts whether we can expect the same kind of coverage in 2022.
The inflation is primarily businesses profiteering off supply chain breakdowns and the need to recover losses from the pandemic. To blame government excessive spending when most is on the military does show that austerity is coming and the collapse of Americans living standards will accelerate. So crime will […]
By John Whitehead and Nissa Whitehead, Rutherford Institute “Tyranny does not flourish because perpetuators are helpless and ignorant of their actions. It flourishes because they actively identify with those who promote vicious acts as virtuous.”—An academic study into pathocracy Disgruntled mobs. Martial law. A populace under house arrest. […]
By Saidiya Hartman, Anarchist Library Esther Brown did not write a political tract on the refusal to be governed, or draft a plan for mutual aid or outline a memoir of her sexual adventures. A manifesto of the wayward: Own Nothing. Refuse the Given. Live on What You […]
By Min, Anarchist Library A short historical summary of the forgotten Korean project known as Shinmin Prefecture and Korean People’s Association in Manchuria. This was a self-governing region of around two million people from 1929 to 1931. 1. Inception Many Koreans gathered in Manchuria to avoid oppression from […]
Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—Special agents involved in last year’s ‘January 6th Insurrection Against Democracy™’ are set to reunite as guests of honor at an extravagant gala hosted by the FBI. The event will reportedly feature live music and entertainment, with comedian James Corden acting as master of ceremonies. […]
By John Zerzan, Anarchist Library In the following article are presented some unusual features of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, the only period in which the KKK was a mass movement. In no way should this essay be interpreted as an endorsement of any aspect of […]
By AntiBoomerEquation ProphetBattlestone’s Amysterium Joseph de Maistre and Society Red in Tooth and Claw Joseph de Maistre is one of the greatest thinkers of the right in history. Not a reactionary, he is rather a realist on the bloody nature of sovereignty and nature in general. He (like […]
“Overwhelming popular demand…” That kind of throws a wrench in popular government or mass democracy of the kind that liberals and social democrats favor.
One question that I’m interested in is what the cultural framework of hegemonic anarchism would look like. I think it’s clear the political aspect would more or less be a world of free cities, micronations, federated bottom-up imperiums, millets, eco-villages, intentional communities, communes, diffused networks, etc. But I […]
By Michael Bluhm The Signal What really happened on January 6? Seth Masket on how Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election continue to endanger U.S. democracy. Americans believe vastly different versions of what happened in Washington a year ago, when a group of Trump supporters breached the […]
By Richard D Wolff Asia Times For the first time in more than a century, the United States has a real, serious, ascending global competitor. The US wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats […]
By Michael Paul Williams Richmond Times-Dispatch In hindsight, Virginia was a testing ground and a grim portent of the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in January 2020, theologian Corey D.B. Walker, then a visiting professor at the University of Richmond, was among a […]
By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine January 6, 2021, may be the most contentious date in American history. To Democrats and the surviving remnant of anti-Trump Republicans, the event was a spasm of right-wing political violence aimed at terminating the republican experiment. To most Republicans, it was something […]
“When faced with extinction any other option is preferable” “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolutions inevitable” You can not take everything from people and leave them with no hope, desperation breeds violence, and those with nothing to lose have no problem putting it all on […]
Journalist Judith Levine makes the case against digital vaccine passports.
Krystal looks at how opportunistic elites have weaponized inflation to bring austerity politics back after coronavirus stimulus created an opportunity to move to a different style of politics
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Israel’s push for a second booster, as well as whether natural immunity will end the pandemic.
Krystal and Saagar respond on an op-ed by the Washington Post Editorial Board calling for unemployment insurance to be denied to the unvaccinated while owner Jeff Bezos parties on a Yacht
Kim Iversen details the new documents released as part of Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Prince Andrew.
Krystal and Saagar deliver more good news on the Omicron covid variant based on early data obtained from places where the variant has quickly spread and case numbers are rising
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the jury’s verdict in Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial.
Krystal and Saagar comment on the decision by tech giants to censor the interview between Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the reported assassination attempt against Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry
Krystal and Saagar cover the verdict in the Elizabeth Holmes trial that saw the disgraced Silicon Valley billionaire charged with multiple counts of wire fraud by the jury
Team Rising reacts to new findings from the House Committee investigating January 6.
Saagar details how the White House Correspondents Association run by mainstream media journalists is using its power to protect the Biden administration from scrutiny at briefings
Ryan Grim details Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s efforts to reform the filibuster.
Krystal and Saagar look at the details in a previously undisclosed settlement involving Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, and victim Virginia Guiffre that was revealed as part of an ongoing lawsuit
Robby Soave predicts that we’ve reached the end of Covid grandstanding and shaming.
Krystal and Saagar talk to foreign policy expert Richard Hanania about how defense contractors made a fortune off America’s wars and that this money is at the heart of America’s strategy
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the massive overnight traffic stop on I-95, as well as Covid case data collection.
Krystal and Saagar outline the bipartisan push in congress supported by the Biden administration to reign in the meatpacking giants who have been jacking up prices and screwing ranchers
By Damon Linker The Week It’s not inevitable. Maybe not even likely. But it’s still worth debate. With the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection looming later this week, analysts and pundits have put the worst-case scenario for the American future on the table for public debate […]
By Grayson Quay The Week If the House flips in 2022, Republicans will likely consider “multiple grounds” for impeaching for President Biden, Sen. Ted. Cruz (R-Texas) predicted on the latest episode of his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. Cruz argued that while he regrets that impeachment proceedings have […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week A record number of workers voluntarily left their jobs in November, CNBC reports, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS. The aptly-named quits level jumped to 4.53 million that month, an 8.9 percent increase from October. The […]
By Damon Linker The Week As a liberal centrist, I’m used to taking heat from both sides of our political and cultural divides. When I criticize progressive “woke” trends, the left lashes back. And when I take aim at intensifying anti-democratic derangement among rank-and-file Republicans, the right retaliates. […]
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What students are learning about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 may depend on where they live. In a Boston suburb in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, history teacher Justin Voldman said his students will spend the day […]
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times A defendant being held in Virginia in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol is extremely ill and at risk of dying because the jail refuses to provide proper medical care and a special diet for his celiac […]
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Washington Post As he runs for the Senate, the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author has gone from media darling to establishment pariah. Is his new, fiery, right-wing persona an act? Or is something more interesting going on? Let’s start with the beard. J.D. Vance didn’t used […]
By Dana Williams Tactics are the techniques and actions used by social movements that implement strategies for the purpose of achieving goals. For anarchist movements, tactics can assume a reactive, diagnostic, or destructive force for opposing hierarchy, repression, and inequality. Tactics can also assume a proactive, prognostic, or […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the potential bipartisan effort to fight meatpacking consolidation, updates on Omicron statistics, unemployment for the unvaccinated, new details about Prince Andrew’s ties to Epstein, Dr. Robert Malone’s appearance on Joe Rogan, Elizabeth Holmes trial verdict, how the White House Correspondent’s Association rigs the […]
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